Pentagon's number two suggests terror war will end in Oct. 2008

[togetherwecan]

The Department of Defense's number two official appears to imply in a memo that the Global War on Terrorism will end just in time for the presidential election in November 2008. The contents of the document are outlined in a column in today's Washington Post.

Al Kamen, who writes the Post's "In The Loop" column, cited a pair of memos written by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England in today's paper. The first memo was written Dec. 6 and sent to top military and civilian officials. It identifies eight priorities for the coming fiscal year, and the first of them is to "Win the Global War on Terrorism."

In a second memo from Feb. 15, England writes that "to ensure that warfighters and taxpayers receive maximum benefit from on-going initiatives, it would be highly desirable to complete current projects by the summer/fall of 2008."

England then provides a quarterly grid with the same eight priorities from the December memo and "expected milestone conclusion dates" for each one.

As Kamen points out, the first priority of winning the global terror war from the earlier memo is included on the grid, and "looks to be over around October 2008."

The next presidential election will occur in November 2008, a month later.

Kamen's full column can be accessed at the Washington Post's website.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagons_number_two_suggests_terror_war_0228.html

[Melissa]

Gee, what a coincidence.

Melissa

[Hazumu]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Photo op, anyone?

Karen  >

[cindianna_jones]

Right.  Let's see if they can do it even when they want to.

Cindi

[SusanKay140]

Strike 1.   They're politicians, they lie and connive for a living as well as a lifestyle.

Strike 2.   They're republicans - see strike 1.

Strike 3.   We allowed the Supreme Court to stick us with George W. Bush, (see Strikes 1 and 2.)  He has blundered, blustered, buffaloed, belly-ached, attacked the wrong country under false pretenses (I ran out of B-words), gotten over three thousand American military women and men killed along with other Americans and many many thousands of Iraqi civilians, and has taken his eye off the ball in pursuit of the real terrorist enemies of the U.S.  When adult leadership regains control, we're going to have to start all over again.

For our country's future, everyone who believes anything close to the above rant should dedicate themselves to holding to the fire the feet of those whose support of him caused this unmitigated disaster he has unleashed.  If not, they will pull back into the woodwork claiming not to have heard of him, let alone voted for him.  In life, there are consequences, and this should be one we are determined to not allow an escape from.

By the way, am I mistaken, or did the country just elect enough democrats to obtain some meaningful change, as opposed to not passing even a meaningless "non-binding resolution"?  See Strike 1.

Susan Kay

[Melissa]

blundered, blustered, buffaloed, belly-ached, attacked the wrong country under false pretenses (I ran out of B-words)

battled, bombed, or bullied works

Melissa

[Brooke_NY]

blundered, blustered, buffaloed, belly-ached, attacked the wrong country under false pretenses (I ran out of B-words)

battled, bombed, or bullied works

They're like beetle battles in a bottle. 

Dr. Suess anyone? . . .

btw, good post SusanKay!

[Susan]

Iraq - TimZ

Iraqi-American rapper TIMZ has released a politically charged music video that is getting national attention since it's debut on YouTube.com this week.

"Iraq" is destined to be a true rallying cry during these difficult political times. "Dear Mr. George Bush," TIMZ raps. "Why do you insist to make a fool of us? For over 200 years... we stood for what's good, now we despised by our peers; And what do you...but add fuel to the fire and send in more troops. Oh the troops God save the troops; it wasn't their war their lies their fault. America the beautiful what did they do to you, they used you its so indisputable!"

On his fiery and autobiographical debut CD, TIMZ—aka Tommy Hanna, an American born rapper of Chaldean and Iraqi descent–gets right up in our faces, mixing explosive, Middle Eastern tinged beats with incendiary rhymes in an effort to shatter those ugly stereotypes that have plagued people who look like him since 9/11 and the start of the Iraq war.

Make no mistake, the title of TIMZ powerful, outspoken and heavy grooving 14- track collection—a nominee for Best Hip-Hop Album at the 2006 San Diego Annual Music Awards—says it all: the San Diego born and bred artist is Open For Business.

"Iraq" was directed by Ron Najor at TheBuzzLA.com

[cindianna_jones]

Yea... non binding resolution.  Is that like let's imagine that we are going to pretend to slap someone's hands? 

The thing is, this last election was almost meaningless. We should have let the publicans keep both houses for the next two years.  Unless they the current congress is willing to impeach, indict, and prosecute those in charge, absolutely nothing will get done.  We really needed 95 percent of the public to disapprove of the leadership. Bush and cronies needed the next two years all by themselves in the sand box to accomplish that.

Nothing will get fixed until we can stop this two sided bickering. And the only thing that will move us to that point is absolute and utter failure of the current regime. 

Cindi

[LostInTime]

What he wrote made sense.  From the original article (and was quite obvious to why that date would be a target date):

In a Feb. 15 memo, England spotted a key fact that most everyone in this town has overlooked. "At noon on Jan. 20, 2009," he wrote, "many of the civilian Department of Defense (DOD) leadership positions will transition to a new Administration Team. This change, coupled with the normal rotation of military leadership, could disrupt many of the management process changes currently underway in the Department."

[SusanKay140]

I can not argue with a thing Cindi wrote.  Every time Bush opens his mouth anymore, his ranking sinks further, so in two years he hopefully will be at a large minus polling.

from Cindi:

Nothing will get fixed until we can stop this two sided bickering. And the only thing that will move us to that point is absolute and utter failure of the current regime

Frankly, the Bush regime has failed; completely and totally - they just don't know it.  The only problem is, during the next two years how many people must pay a fatal price for his total stupidity and the failure of congress (both parties) to reel him in.

Susan Kay

[kaelin]

I'm pretty sure Republicans are not trying to "reel him in" as such.  A large majority of Republicans stand by Bush is doing, and that's ultimately because the GOP itself is running the show in the White House, not Bush.  Remember, the Democrats couldn't get enough Republican senators on their side to stop the filibuster (which required 9 of the 49 Republicans, plus another two or three to offset the likes of Joe Lieberman) that was stalling the non-binding resolution to condemn Bush's troop surge.

It does seem pretty silly that they are going to "win" these wars by a certain date.  I thought Bush wasn't a fan of time tables in war...

[Omika]

Huh?

Look, I don't know about all this "bipartisan" nonsense (everyone in the upper tiers of the government are either corrupt or completely cowed). I stopped paying attention a long time ago.

I'm just focusing on getting a revolution started.  This system stinks.

~ Blair

[Ricki]

Agghhhh
This is just wonderful news..
I'll be sleeping much better in the year of 2008 "yawn".....

hehe this stuff is hilarious!
Ricki